Community Fund – a multi-purpose fund that underpins grants to a variety of area nonprofits.

Contribute to "field-of-interest" endowments started by generous people like you. Each fund has a different purpose and enables grants to go to nonprofits working in such areas as early childhood education, animal welfare, homelessness and horticulture education, to name a few causes.

Donate to benefit a specific nonprofit or cause through one of our designated endowments. Each fund names a specific nonprofit (or more) to receive annual grants. There are dozens of choices include, for example, benefitting Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Elizabeth River Project and places of worship.

Don't know what to give to the friend or relative who has everything? Give a gift to his or her donor-advised fund.

If you are 70 1/2 years old or older and have an Individual Retirement Account, consider making an IRA charitable rollover to create or add to a fund at the community foundation. This option could help you be charitable without your IRA distribution being counted as income.